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Study of All-cause Mortality During Covid-19: No Plague, But Likely Mass Homicide by Government Response

Dr. Denis G. Rancourt, PhD
researchgate.net
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 20:23 UTC
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Summary / Abstract

The latest data of all-cause mortality by week does not show a winter-burden mortality that is statistically larger than for past winters. There was no plague. However, a sharp "COVID peak" is present in the data, for several jurisdictions in Europe and the USA. This all-cause-mortality "COVID peak" has unique characteristics:
  • Its sharpness, with a full-width at half-maximum of only approximately 4 weeks;
  • Its lateness in the infectious-season cycle, surging after week-11 of 2020, which is unprecedented for any large sharp-peak feature;
  • The synchronicity of the onset of its surge, across continents, and immediately following the WHO declaration of the pandemic;
  • and its USA state-to-state absence or presence for the same viral ecology on the same territory, being correlated with nursing home events and government actions rather than any known viral strain discernment.
These "COVID peak" characteristics, and a review of the epidemiological history, and of relevant knowledge about viral respiratory diseases, lead me to postulate that the "COVID peak" results from an accelerated mass homicide of immune-vulnerable individuals, and individuals made more immune-vulnerable, by government and institutional actions, rather than being an epidemiological signature of a novel virus, irrespective of the degree to which the virus is novel from the perspective of viral speciation.

Comment: Also by Dr Rancourt:
The Science is Conclusive: Masks and Respirators do NOT Prevent Transmission of Viruses
His analysis of this past winter's all-cause mortality rates, and his conclusion, is in line with ours:
Everything You Think You Know About Coronavirus
And so, to summarize the 'Covid-19 pandemic' once more...

For two/three months the WHO, the media, and whichever 'secret cabal' controls both, shoved in everyone's faces the fact that old people die when they reach the end of their lives. In the process of 'making everyone realize the horror' of this fact, irresponsible (and frankly pathological) elites willfully enjoined the general population to accelerate the deaths of tens of thousands of elderly and immune-compromised people, who died alone when separated from loved ones and abandoned by their regular healthcare practitioners.

Govt policy decisions - specifically, ONE 'central' govt policy decision, one followed by most Western govts, along with a few others - generated a 'bottleneck of deaths' by temporarily lifting the normal healthcare options available to society's most vulnerable. These vulnerable people then died in droves, earlier than they would otherwise have done, and their deaths provided the media with images of 'overflowing morgues', crematoria, etc. from around the world.

Ironically then, the declared purpose of the lockdown - to 'save the elderly' by 'flattening the curve' - produced precisely the opposite outcome: the elderly were killed off, thereby artificially and precipitately spiking the otherwise flatter regular winter season curve.

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Book excerpts leaked: Bolton's accusations against Trump feed Democrats' frenzy


RT
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 22:02 UTC
Bolton
© Reuters/Jonathan Drake
Former national security adviser
Former national security adviser John Bolton has leaked excerpts of his book to major newspapers, accusing President Donald Trump of colluding with leaders in China and Turkey, and obstruction of justice "as a way of life."

Facing a DOJ lawsuit seeking to block the publication of his memoir for containing classified information, Bolton decided to go to the press, leaking parts of the book to the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

Comment: Bolton's book was meant to hit the market just as the election frenzy is about to begin...as they say: 'timing is everything'. The lawsuit will muck that up, but not before Bolton gives away his treasure trove of innuendo for free in order to cement partnership with the Dems - his new best friends.

See: US files breach of contract lawsuit against John Bolton blocking release of his book

Bent on inflicting damage while defying legal court action, more Bolton leaks appear in the press:
Excerpts published from Bolton's forthcoming book on Wednesday claim that, during a sideline meeting at last year's G-20 summit in Japan, President Donald Trump asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping to boost his country's purchases of US agricultural goods, believing it would aid his re-election bid. Pressed about the claim at a Senate hearing later on Wednesday, Trump's top trade envoy, Robert Lighthizer, said in no uncertain terms that the allegation is false.
"There was a meeting on the outskirts of the G-20, in Osaka between the president and President Xi, and I was in that meeting, Absolutely untrue. Never happened. I don't want you to think I'm being deceptive. I said what meeting I was at, and this never happened at it. For sure."
The previews from Bolton's memoir come just a day after the Department of Justice launched a lawsuit seeking to force the former advisor to complete a pre-print review for the book, arguing it is "rife" with classified material. The book had reportedly been shipped out to warehouses, ready to hit the shelves, but the new suit could see its publication delayed, possibly prompting the leaked excerpts in retaliation.

Though Bolton has defended lying in service of US foreign policy goals on record, even openly boasting of his own ability to "spin" the facts, a number of American journalists and pundits rushed to endorse his version of the G-20 meeting.



Bolton, a main driving force behind the coup attempts in Venezuela, offers exploitable 'bombshells' timed for the upcoming election:
US President Donald Trump thought it would be "cool" to invade Venezuela but was persuaded not to by "Soviet-style propaganda" from Moscow, claims former national security adviser John Bolton in book excerpts leaked to the press.

Trump...described the South American country as "really part of the United States," according to the Washington Post.


In January 2019, Trump recognized opposition politician Juan Guaido as Venezuela's "interim president" at Bolton's urging - only to have doubts a day later, according to the book, saying that Guaido looked "weak" and childish next to the "tough" Maduro.

Trump was "largely persuaded" against overthrowing Maduro after a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in May 2019, Bolton claims, calling Putin's comparison of Guaido with Trump's 2016 rival Hillary Clinton a "brilliant display of Soviet style propaganda," according to the Post.


Not accepting Bolton's innuendo, the Kremlin had this to say:
The Kremlin has dismissed former US National Security Advisor John Bolton's claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin is able to manipulate his American counterpart Donald Trump.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday that Putin does not believe he can exploit or control the US leader. "No, Putin cannot play Trump like a 'fiddle'. What he thinks about Trump, he himself has repeatedly said in many interviews," Peskov explained.

Bolton describes Trump as a person who trusts Putin more than his own intelligence services. Bolton also alleges that the Russian president perceives Trump as a weak opponent.

In one instance, Bolton writes that Trump asked an aide whether Finland was part of Russia. The US president has slammed the book as a mixture of lies and fictional stories.
If these snippets of the book have any validity, it shows Trump is, at times, an independent thinker with a modicum of common sense. If Moscow offered 'a come to reason' moment with the president - good on them! It is clear Bolton was a poison pill from the beginning, likely one Trump had to swallow. Bolton's current machinations further reveal the trap within the neocon mind.

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US files breach of contract lawsuit against John Bolton blocking release of his book

Dave Boyer
Washington Times
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Bolton
© AP/Carolyn Koster
Former national security advisor John Bolton
The Trump administration sued former White House National Security Adviser John R. Bolton on Tuesday to block the release of his new book next week, saying he never completed a required government review to scrub classified information.

The breach-of-contract suit filed by the Justice Department in federal court says the action seeks to stop Mr. Bolton "from compromising national security." It says that in his former post in the White House, Mr. Bolton had "a high-level role in which he regularly came into possession of some of the most sensitive classified information that exists in the U.S. government."

Although Mr. Bolton did remove some classified information from the manuscript, the National Security Council has determined that some secrets remain in his book, up to several paragraphs in length.

The lawsuit states:
"In fact, the NSC has determined that information in the manuscript is classified at the Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret levels.

"Accordingly, the publication and release of The Room Where it Happened would cause irreparable harm, because the disclosure of instances of classified information in the manuscript reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage, or exceptionally grave damage, to the national security of the United States."

Comment: Stay tuned. This fight is just beginning!

Bolton is apparently on shaky legal ground and according to Trump he will run afoul the law if the book is published as is:
Trump indicated that his administration will do everything to prevent it from seeing the light of the day. Speaking alongside Attorney General Bill Bar on Monday, Trump took a dig at Bolton, saying that his former national security advisor "should not call himself an 'ambassador' since he was never confirmed by the Senate," and that he "gave him a break" by cherry-picking him for a position that did not require Senate confirmation.
"I can't imagine that he can [write a book], because that's highly classified information. Even conversations with me - they are highly classified. I told that to the Attorney General before. I would consider any conversation with me as president highly classified.

"So that would mean if he wrote a book and if the book gets out, he's broken the law and I would think he would have criminal problems...has been known not to tell the truth a lot."
With the Trump administration preparing for a legal war with Bolton, his lawyer Chuck Cooper has accused the White House of trying to silence his client using the pretext of US national security. Cooper claimed that the National Security Council employees had reviewed the book for months before indicating that it was good to go in late April, but then the White House intervened, and Trump's deputy counsel for national security John A. Eisenberg told them on June 8 that the book contained classified information.

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Pelosi orders removal of Confederate portraits in Capitol

Cristina Marcos
The Hill
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:49 UTC
Nancy Pelosi
© AP Photo/Susan Walsh
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2020.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday ordered the removal of four portraits in the Capitol of previous House Speakers who served in the Confederacy.

The move marks Pelosi's latest effort to take down Confederate imagery in the Capitol, following her push last week calling for the removal of 11 Confederate statues displayed in the Capitol complex.

"We didn't know about this until we were taking inventory of the statues and the curator told us that there were four paintings of Speakers in the Capitol of the United States, four Speakers who had served in the Confederacy," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol.
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Bad Guys

NATO must deal with, not ignore Turkish problem: French official

John Irish
Reuters
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:45 UTC
nato turkey flag
© Reuters / Francois Lenoir
NATO must not bury its head in the sand with regard to Turkey's recent behaviour towards its allies, a French defence ministry official said on Wednesday, accusing the Turkish navy of harassing a French warship on a NATO mission.

A senior Turkish official denied the accusation, saying "no such thing" had occurred.

NATO defence ministers will hold a virtual meeting this week amid growing tensions between Paris and Ankara. The two allies have traded barbs over the crisis in Libya, accusing each other of supporting opposing sides in the country's war.

Speaking ahead of the meeting, the French defence ministry official said it was time NATO had a frank discussion about Turkey and its conduct - not just in Libya, but other issues such as Ankara buying Russian S-400 defence systems and blocking NATO defence planning for the Baltics and Poland.

"We have known complicated moments in the alliance, but we can't be an ostrich and can't pretend there isn't a Turkey problem at NATO. We have to see it, say it and handle it," said the official. Calling Turkey's behaviour unacceptable, the official singled out Turkey's role in Libya,

Comment: French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll added this:
"Turkey's support for the ongoing offensive of the Government of National Accord goes directly against efforts to secure an immediate truce," von der Muhll said in a statement. "This support is coupled with hostile and unacceptable behavior by the Turkish maritime forces towards NATO allies, aimed at hampering efforts to implement the United Nations arms embargo."
In response, NATO has launched a probe into the French-Turkish naval standoff.

Turkey is up to its usual dirty tricks in Libya (same as in Syria):

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Light Sabers

China-India border standoff leaves at least 20 Indian troops dead, protesters burn Chinese flag & Xi effigy in Uttar Pradesh


RT
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:15 UTC
Xi effigy burned india border dispute china 2020
© Twitter / ANI
A group of Indian demonstrators set fire to a Chinese flag and burned an effigy of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The event, organized by a local NGO, comes after the first fatal clash between China and India since 1975.

In a series of photos, posted by ANI, a group of demonstrators is seen torching an effigy which has a printed image of Chinese President Xi Jinping pinned to its 'head.' Another photo shows a man setting fire to a Chinese flag. Some of the demonstrators can be seen playing drums while others hold signs.

The protest was reportedly organized by Vishal Bharat Sansthan, a local NGO based in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Comment: Modi has attempted to rally his country, declaring the Indian troops deaths 'were not in vain', but in the cause of India's security.

India's Minister for social justice and empowerment Ramdas Athawale, has called for a boycott of all Chinese goods, while a major Chinese engineering firm is set to lose a significant contract with Indian Railways, according to the Indian Express newspaper .

China has returned 10 Indian soldiers captured in the clash on the Himalayan border, although Bejing Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian officially denied taking any Indian personnel prisoner.

India is now facing flashpoints on two sides of its northern borders. It is locked in a dispute with Pakistan over Jammu & Kashmir province to the west and with China in the Himalayas to the east. What does Modi hope to accomplish?
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Putin

Putin: 75 years after WW2, new global crisis calls for victorious anti-Nazi coalition to work together again

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:40 UTC
putin
© Sputnik / Alexey Druzhinin
In 1945, they defeated Adolf Hitler and Imperial Japan. Now, 75 years on, Vladimir Putin believes that the present global health and economic emergency requires the Second World War allies to unite once more.

In a lengthy op-ed, published in American foreign policy journal 'The National Interest' and Russian government newspaper 'Rossiyskaya Gazeta,' the Russian president discusses the reasons behind the rise of the Nazis. He also outlines the benefits of the post-war world order, which he now believes needs to be renewed.

Putin cites the weakness of the League of Nations as one of the principal causes of the conflict. As a result, he praises the winners for setting up the United Nations, with a solid legal foundation, to help prevent future hot wars between great powers.

Today, with the Covid-19 pandemic, and resultant economic fallout, he urges the chief allies - who now comprise the permanent membership of the UN Security Council - to pull together.
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Putin: Stalin's Soviet regime is rightly accused of crimes & mass repression against its own people


RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:20 UTC
Putin
© Sputnik / Kremlin / Aleksey Nikolskyi
One of the strange aspects of western media coverage of Russia is the constant attempts to paint Vladimir Putin as an apologist for Josef Stalin. Meanwhile, in the real world, he has once-again berated the Soviet leader's legacy.

The Russian President used an op-ed, published in American foreign policy journal The National Interest and in the Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, to reiterate that the Georgian-born autocrat, who led the Soviet Union from the 1920s to 1953, had committed crimes against his own people.

Referring to the role of the USSR in the Second World War, and the personal wartime contribution of its commander-in-chief, Putin noted that the Russian people have not forgotten the terror he unleashed. "We remember the crimes committed by the regime against its own people and the horror of mass repressions," the president wrote.

According to Putin, while Stalin and his entourage deserve reproach for their transgressions, they do at least deserve credit for their "understanding of the nature of external threats." The Soviet leaders "saw how attempts were made to leave the Soviet Union alone to deal with Germany and its allies... bearing in mind this real threat, they sought to buy precious time needed to strengthen the country's defenses," he explained.

Comment: See also: And for a more in-depth look, see these articles about author and Nobel Prize Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - one of the most ardent critics of the Stalin regime - and Solzhenitsyn's praise of Putin's leadership in stark contrast to Stalin's:

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Bolton book slamming Trump may have delighted the MSM, but seems to be driven by venom, not facts


RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:26 UTC
John Bolton Donald Trump
© AFP / Nicholas Kamm
John Bolton and Donald Trump
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton's book The Room Where It Happened accuses Trump of incompetence and potential criminality. But it contains nothing that should disqualify him from the presidency.

Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton's new book, The Room Where It Happened, has taken Washington by storm.

Filled with pointed criticisms of President Donald J Trump, Bolton's book, which details allegations of incompetence and potentially criminal conduct, is an elixir of hope for those whose mission is to undermine the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where the Oval Office (the "room" alluded to in the title of Bolton's book) is located. Whether or not this elixir can deliver on its promise remains to be seen.

In 2016, the United States elected a man wholly unqualified to be President of the United States. Those who supported the candidacy of Donald Trump knew this when they cast their votes. Indeed, the lack of Washington "taint" was one of his major alluring qualities. Trump won not because he was deemed to be more experienced than his competition, but rather because the kind of experience that had traditionally been qualifying was deemed by the electorate as distinctly unqualifying.

Comment: Bolton is a neocon par excellence who still ascribes to the US being the 'world's policeman'. Trump was right to turf him. Furthermore, Bolton's loyalties should be in serious question as his single-minded focus on bringing down Iran has led to providing support for a known terrorist group:

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Gear

Globalists reveal that the "great economic reset" is coming in 2021

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 05:37 UTC
time slipping
For those not familiar with the phrase "global economic reset", it is one that has been used ever increasingly by elitists in the central banking world for several years. I first heard it referenced by Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF at the time, in 2014. The reset is often mentioned in the same breath as ideas like "the New Multilateralism" or "the Multipolar World Order" or "the New World Order". All of these phrases mean essentially the same thing.


Comment: Actually, the "multipolar" world also suggests power shared by many countries like Russia, China, India that are not usually thought of as central bank-controlled.


The reset is promoted as a solution to the ongoing economic crisis which was triggered in 2008. This same financial crash is still with us today, but now, after a decade of central bank money printing and debt creation, the bubble is even bigger than it was before. As always, the central bank "cure" is far worse than the disease, and the renewed crash we face today is far more deadly than what would have happened in 2008 if we had simply taken our medicine and refused to prop up weak parts of the economy artificially.

Many alternative economists often wrongly attribute the Fed's habit of making things worse to "hubris" or "ignorance". They think the Fed actually wants to save the financial system or "protect the golden goose", but this is not reality. The truth is, the Fed is not a bumbling maintenance man, the Fed is a saboteur, a suicide bomber that is willing to destroy even itself as an institution in order to explode the US economy and clear the path for a new globally centralized one world system. Hence, the "Global Reset".

Comment: We wholeheartedly agree with the author's last point. At this time, the nothingburgerness of the "pandemic" is becoming ever clearer to people who are still able to think for themselves. Being conned out of livelihoods, normal social interactions and forcibly made to take vaccines (which is what we are being prepared to accept) is not going over well with anyone willing to disengage from the dictates of authoritarian leaders and their talking heads in the corporate media. Many will be part of a true resistance.

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